Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As it is with artists it must be with art photographers - 95 % ara bad and fake - 5 % are good - 0,05% are brilliant of only 0,005% of the brillian makes a profit while they live I do not know if the statement below from teresa299@aol.com was ironical - if not the remark on Sally Mann is way out and the rest you write is ........ Ruben Teresa299@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 12/8/03 7:20:55 AM, KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu writes: > ><< sally mann and anna >gaskill and any other number of very talented people. >> > >anna, gaskill tilts her camera and shoots from below. She has strange ideas >about Alice in Wonderland and therefore she's not displaying reality and >therefore, sucks. > >Sally Mann shoots subjects that make people feel uncomfortable. Therefore >she sucks. > >Anything that is not direct or closely related to photojournalism is art >photography and therefore must suck. > >The best photography is scientific photography. My person favourites are >photographs of microscopic viruses. Those don't suck. Unless they are in black >and white. Black and white isn't as close to reality and therefore sucks >more than color. > > >Kim >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html